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Life Quotes by Doris Lessing
- What matters most is that we learn from living.
- You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way…
- You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
- My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.
- I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and,…
- I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of…
- Laughter is by definition healthy.
- Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are…
- It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody…
- ...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle